diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-pycountry/template b/srcpkgs/python-pycountry/template
index 5b8ec37ce6..21bf653ed1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-pycountry/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-pycountry/template
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
 # Template file for 'python-pycountry'
 pkgname=python-pycountry
-version=16.11.27.1
+version=17.1.8
 revision=1
 wrksrc="pycountry-${version}"
 noarch=yes
 build_style=python-module
 hostmakedepends="python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
-depends="python-lxml"
+depends="python"
 pycompile_module="pycountry"
 short_desc="ISO databases accessible from Python2"
 maintainer="Farhad Shahbazi <grauwolf@geekosphere.org>"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 homepage="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycountry"
 distfiles="${PYPI_SITE}/p/pycountry/pycountry-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=08c17eec56bba50f8d66529ce90fc343d75d77280537141ee65e61b41936aa1d
+checksum=c5ccad49e47caee92779bf83da81565159b1fe3d8f48b063068ac118b73dd1f8
 
 python3-pycountry_package() {
 	noarch=yes
-	depends="python3-lxml"
+	depends="python3"
 	pycompile_module="pycountry"
 	replaces="python3.4-pycountry>=0"
 	short_desc="${short_desc/Python2/Python3}"